11. Some shows are now carrying special programming allowing WebTV users to link to a Web site or other special information right from a show. 12. Tensions between the networks and the stations that carry their programming are hardly new. 13. Television stations receive some of their revenue from prime time because in many cases the networks pay them a fee to carry the programming. 14. The operation is helping Pacific Bell build an advanced fiber network that will carry telephone programming over phone lines. 15. Those broadcasters often carry local programming and allow viewers to receive a variety of shows without subscribing to cable, Congress reasoned when it wrote the law. 16. Traditionally, the networks have paid affiliates to carry their programming, not the other way around. 17. Turner Broadcasting System has decided to pull the international edition of CNN from an Amsterdam cable operator rather than pay it high fees for carrying the programming. 18. Radio stations have learned to embrace the Internet as an ally capable of carrying their programming all over the world. 19. For example, a cable operator could carry competing programming but refuse to pass through the special signals needed for interactivity, critics say. 20. The station also was negotiating with the Voice of America and other international broadcasters to carry its programming, he said. |